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plan ➔ space
Personal blog · planspace.orgdataprogrammingai
plan ➔ space is a personal blog at planspace.org about data, programming and ai. Since 2014, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 66 times, most often “Gaussian Processes Are Not So Fancy”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on statistics and machine learning, such as ranking items by up and downvotes or star ratings, and an intuitive introduction to Gaussian processes.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Gaussian Processes Are Not So Fancy3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-01-03
- Use pew, not virtualenvwrapper, for Python virtualenvs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-01-21
- See sklearn trees with D32 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-11-29
- Distributed MapReduce with TensorFlow2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-04-11
What Hacker News says?
I presented a version of this at a meetup! Presentation and supporting materials here: http://planspace.org/20160629-presenting_hello_tensorflow/
Comment linking /20160629-presenting_hello_tensorflow/
on “Hello, Tensorflow”Submitted Gaussian Processes Are Not So Fancy as a story · 109 points
HN discussionWow! I was going to post this but here it is already! I wrote (with a lot of help) the article there. I also jotted down some notes on the process of writing it with O'Reilly in case anybody's interested in that side of things: http://planspace.org/20160619-writing_with_oreilly/
Comment linking /20160619-writing_with_oreilly/
on “Hello, Tensorflow”Submitted Use pew, not virtualenvwrapper, for Python virtualenvs as a story · 33 points
HN discussionMeta | Local and Remote options | Multiple Roles | Full-time Come work at Meta! (Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp/etc.) Still hiring for lots of roles including data engineering, data science, SWEs, etc - take a look! I'd be happy to refer you! https://planspace.org/20211109-come_work_at_meta/
Comment linking /20211109-come_work_at_meta/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)”Submitted TensorFlow as a Distributed Virtual Machine as a story · 10 points
HN discussionMeta | Local and Remote options | Multiple Roles | Full-time Come work at Meta! (Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp/etc.) Lots of roles including data engineering, data science, SWEs, etc. I'd be happy to refer you! https://planspace.org/20211109-come_work_at_meta/
Comment linking /20211109-come_work_at_meta/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)”Submitted The Awk Programming Language as a story · 8 points
HN discussionMeta | Local and Remote options | Multiple Roles | Full-time Come work at Meta! (Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp/etc.) Lots of roles including data engineering, data science, SWEs, etc. I'd be happy to refer you! https://planspace.org/20211109-come_work_at_meta/
Comment linking /20211109-come_work_at_meta/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2022)”Submitted A Great Python Book Explains Hash Tables as a story · 7 points
HN discussionMeta | Local and Remote options | Multiple Roles | Full-time Come work at Meta! (Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp/etc.) Still hiring for lots of roles including data engineering, data science, SWEs, etc - take a look! I'd be happy to refer you! https://planspace.org/20211109-come_work_at_meta/
Comment linking /20211109-come_work_at_meta/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2022)”Submitted Failure to replicate Schwartz-Ziv and Tishby as a story · 6 points
HN discussionMeta | Local and Remote options | Multiple Roles | Full-time Come work at Meta! (Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp/etc.) Lots of roles including data engineering, data science, SWEs, etc. I'd be happy to refer you! https://planspace.org/20211109-come_work_at_meta/
Comment linking /20211109-come_work_at_meta/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2022)”Submitted Distributed MapReduce with TensorFlow as a story · 6 points
HN discussionMeta | Local and Remote options | Multiple Roles | Full-time Come work at Meta! (Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp/etc.) Lots of roles including data engineering, data science, SWEs, etc. I'd be happy to refer you! See https://planspace.org/20211109-come_work_at_meta/
Comment linking /20211109-come_work_at_meta/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2021)”Submitted Q-Learning Tic-Tac-Toe, Briefly as a story · 5 points
HN discussionMeta | Local and Remote options | Multiple Roles | Full-time Come work at Meta! (Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp/etc.) Lots of roles including data engineering, data science, SWEs, product management, etc. I'd be happy to refer you! https://planspace.org/20211109-come_work_at_meta/
Comment linking /20211109-come_work_at_meta/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2022)”Submitted Equivalences Between Tables, Maps, Graphs, and Sets as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI like the visualizations for showing how different kernels work, but I tend to prefer my explanation of GPs: https://planspace.org/20181226-gaussian_processes_are_not_so... Would love to get more feedback as well!
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on “A Visual Exploration of Gaussian Processes”Submitted Ruby Symbols Are Not Lisp Symbols as a story · 5 points
HN discussionHere's a paper that analyzes various ways to rank items using upvotes/downvotes; and comes up with a way to determine which method is the best: http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~dell/publications/dellzhang_ictir2... Also related: http://planspace.org/2014/08/17/how-to-sort-by-average-ratin...
Comment linking /2014/08/17/how-to-sort-by-average-rating/
on “Bayesian ranking of items with up and downvotes or 5 star ratings”Submitted How Not to Program the TensorFlow Graph as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI highly recommend the following post which gives the basic intuition behind gaussian processes: https://planspace.org/20181226-gaussian_processes_are_not_so...
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on “A Visual Exploration of Gaussian Processes”Submitted Does TensorFlow Suffer from the Second-System Effect? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionMeta | Local and Remote options | Multiple Roles | Full-time Come work at Meta! (Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp/etc.) Hiring for roles including data engineering, data science, SWEs, etc - take a look! I'd be happy to refer you! https://planspace.org/20211109-come_work_at_meta/
Comment linking /20211109-come_work_at_meta/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2023)”Submitted The Nvidia Jetson TK1 with Caffe on MNIST as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSome rationale here: http://planspace.org/20141207-make_it_easy_to_install_emacs/ Feedback/improvements appreciated!
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on “Emacs installation simplified”Submitted TextBlob Sentiment: Calculating Polarity and Subjectivity as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Monads by Diagram as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thinking Cards: 55 problem-solving strategies, with a shuffle button as a story · 3 points
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